The backslash in the filename specification in
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/gettext.el must be escaped (\&quot;\\\\.po$\&quot;),
otherwise the regex \&quot;.po$\&quot; matches many other files.
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Open a file called \&quot;apo\&quot; in Emacs.
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The error is caused by the build procedure that uses
cat &lt;&lt;EOF
which substitutes escaped characters.
Better use a separate SOURCE as in RedHat\'s gettext. Their po-mode init-script
for Emacs is more powerful than the one present in ALT\'s pkg -- we should take
it.
By the way, I discovered that a newer version of gettext has been released
recently: <a
href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.tar.gz</a>